Whistling past the graveyard…and wondering if the revolution will ever begin.

Palm Oil Plague

Palm oil is so pervasive, it’s not easy to keep it (and dead orangutans, among other species that suffer when forests are cut down to grow palm plantations) out of your food.

It’s annoying that the food industry makes us work so hard to do no harm. But here’s the best set of guides I have seen so far if you want to make the effort to eat without a nagging, palm oil-soaked, conscience.

The guides are broken down in to different categories. For example, here is the guide to palm oil free soaps/shampoos/beauty products:

Tim Zimmermann

I am a Washington-DC based writer, interested in politics, history and adventure. I am a Correspondent for Outside magazine, Associate Producer and Co-Writer of the documentary Blackfish, a former Senior Editor and Diplomatic Correspondent for US News & World Report, and author of The Race (Houghton Mifflin, 2002).